SCI: ETF Early Operations - PSC

SCI：ETF 早期运营 - PSC

• 批准号: 0451545
• 负责人: Michael Levine
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: MPC Corporation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Cooperative Agreement
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-03-01 至 2009-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0451545&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SCI; ETF; Early; Operations; PSC

The Extensible Terascale Facility (ETF), or TeraGrid, involves nine resource providers operating high-performance computing, information, and visualization facilities, interconnected by a dedicated optical network and integrated with a set of common software that presents the user community with a cohesive set of resources and services. On October 1, 2004, the ETF will conclude a three-year construction effort to create this distributed environment and will transition into an operational state. This proposal outlines a set of services to be provided at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center as part of the TeraGrid system. PSC will enable leading-edge scientific inquiry by providing and operating an integrated resources environment to TeraGrid users. It comprises capability-computing platforms supported by tightly coupled, high-performance storage, visualization, and networking systems. PSC personnel will work directly with selected users to improve the performance of their applications on the TG systems, emphasizing scaling to large processor counts. Under a separate proposal, PSC will acquire, install, bring up, integrate, stabilize, assess and test on a representative set of initial applications, an early model (prototype) supercomputing system. Based on the Red Storm system now under construction by Cray, Inc. for the Sandia National Laboratory (SNL), it is designed to be a highly scalable capability system for very demanding, high-end computational scientific and engineering research applications. It will be interfaced to, and served by, the PSC file and network systems and will be a component of the TeraGrid. This proposal includes efforts required to integrate the significant new resource into the PSC and TG environment. The system will be sufficiently large to support a broad range of testing to establish its viability, at a larger scale, as a leadership-class resource for the open U.S. research community.

可扩展Terascale设备(ETF)或TeraGrid涉及九个资源提供商，它们运营高性能计算、信息和可视化设施，通过专用光纤网络互连，并与一套通用软件集成，为用户社区提供一组连贯的资源和服务。2004年10月1日，ETF将完成为期三年的建设工作，以创建这种分布式环境，并将过渡到运行状态。这份提案概述了匹兹堡超级计算中心将提供的一系列服务，作为TeraGrid系统的一部分。PSC将通过向TeraGrid用户提供和运行综合资源环境来支持前沿科学研究。它包括由紧密耦合的高性能存储、可视化和网络系统支持的能力计算平台。PSC人员将直接与选定的用户合作，以提高他们的应用程序在TG系统上的性能，重点是扩展到大型处理器数量。根据另一项提议，PSC将获得、安装、启动、集成、稳定、评估和测试一组具有代表性的初始应用程序，这是一个早期模型(原型)超级计算系统。基于Cray，Inc.正在为桑迪亚国家实验室(SNL)建造的Red Storm系统，它被设计为一个高度可扩展的能力系统，适用于要求非常苛刻的高端计算科学和工程研究应用。它将与PSC文件和网络系统对接，并由其提供服务，并将成为TeraGrid的一个组成部分。这项提议包括将重要的新资源纳入方案支助委员会和信托基金环境所需的努力。该系统将足够大，以支持广泛的测试，以建立其可行性，在更大的规模，作为一个领先的一流的资源，为开放的美国研究社区。